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Director: Christopher Nolan An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston. Director: Martin Scorsese Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his modus operandi. Director: David Fincher Edit Storyline Jordan Belfort is a Long Island penny stockbroker who served 22 months in prison for defrauding investors in a massive 1990s securities scam that involved widespread corruption on Wall Street and in the corporate banking world, including shoe designer Steve Madden. Written by anonymous Biography | Comedy | Crime | Drama Motion Picture Rating ( MPAA ) Rated R for sequences of strong sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use and language throughout, and for some violence | See all certifications » Parents Guide: 25 December 2013 (USA) See more » Also Known As: El lobo de Wall Street See more » Filming Locations: $18,510,000 (USA) (27 December 2013) Gross: Did You Know?

Trivia When Jordan Belfort shows up at a gritty Long Island strip mall answering an advertisement for brokers, he enters a store-front with a sign above it touting "Robert Mancuso Accounting." This is an insider's nod to veteran camera assistant Bobby Mancuso , who not only worked on "Wolf" but on two other major releases the same year: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) and Inside Llewyn Davis (2013). See more » Goofs The original Forbes magazine article on Belfort (October 14, 1991) was NOT titled "The Wolf of Wall Street", it was titled: "Steaks, Stocks -- What's the Difference?". In fact, Belfort was never known as "The Wolf of Wall Street" during his career. The article's author, Roula Khalaf, did call him a "twisted Robin Hood who takes money from the rich and gives to himself and his merry band of brokers", which he complains about to Teresa.

However, Belfort was actually upset not because he was depicted in a bad light, but because Khalaf had exposed the shenanigans of Stratton Oakmont and its use of the "pump and dump" technique. See more » Quotes Jordan Belfort : Let me tell you something. There is no nobility in poverty. I have been a rich man and I have been a poor man. And I choose rich every fucking time. Because at least as a rich man, when I have to face my problems, I show up in the back of a limo, wearing a $2,000 suit and a $40,000 gold fucking watch! See more » Crazy Credits The film opens with a Stratton Oakmont advertisement hosted by Jordan Belfort. The film title appears only at the ending. See more » Connections Jordan Belfort: Meet the REAL Wolf of Wall Street as played by Leonardo DiCaprio - Mirror Online Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email Coke snorting and orgies were part of daily life when you worked for depraved financier Jordan Belfort, the Sunday People reports.

Played by Leonardo DiCaprio in a new blockbuster , twisted Belfort ran his crooked stockbroker business like a debauched Roman emperor. Successful employees were ­rewarded with hookers, booze and drugs. Failures were fired. Workers were encouraged to have sex in a glass lift in full view of the office, there were naked marching bands and female staff at parties were expected to dance topless and sleep with the men. But Belfort’s empire, funded by £150million he swindled from investors, came crashing down in the late 90s. He served just 22 months for fraud and money laundering where he wrote two memoirs which are the basis for The Wolf of Wall Street film. The three-hour black comedy, directed by Martin Scorsese, which premiered on Thursday has been called one of Hollywood’s most depraved movies ever. But Belfort claims the fiction doesn’t compete with the real-life drug-addled world of stock-selling firm Stratton Oakmont, which he compared to the Biblical dens of sin Sodom and Gomorrah.

He said: “It wasn’t every firm that sported hookers in the basement, drug dealers in the parking lot, exotic animals in the boardroom and midget-tossing competitions on Fridays.” Even party-loving DiCaprio, 39, described Belfort, now 51, as the biggest hedonist he has ever met. DiCaprio said: “He was like a modern-day emperor Caligula. He held nothing back and was unapologetic about his lust for wealth and mad consumption.” Fraudster: Jordan Belfort with his second wife, Miller Lite model, Nadine (Photo: Jordan Belfort) Belfort, a former door-to-door seafood salesman, lived the high-life with his London-born blonde model wife Nadine Caridi and an army of high-priced hookers. In a single drug-fuelled afternoon Belfort wrote off a yacht and one of his two helicopters. He smashed up his convertible Mercedes with his toddler ­daughter unbuckled in the front passenger seat who, luckily, ­escaped unscathed. He also had to be strapped down in his first-class plane seat after sexually ­assaulting an air stewardess.

And when he ran short of sex-enhancing Quaalude pills while staying in a £9,000-a-night suite at London’s Dorchester Hotel, he told his chauffeur in New York to fly over on Concorde with more. Shortly before his empire crashed he persuaded Nadine’s prim English aunt, a teacher played by Ab Fab’s Joanna Lumley, to let him launder millions of dollars through a Swiss bank using her name. She died before he pulled off that scam. Star salesman Josh Shapiro at the now defunct Stratton Oakmont, recalled how he was rewarded with a £300-an-hour hooker for landing deals and Belfort even employed naked marching bands to “encourage” him during cold calls. Other “perks” included limitless cocaine, ecstasy and Quaaludes. He said: “The girls were the top of the crop, gorgeous former cheerleaders for professional football teams. "One liked to go to all our parties in Atlantic City. They rented a bus for 40 people, and she had oral sex with everybody on the bus. “Drug use was rampant. I took three or four Quaaludes a day.

"You thought you were the funniest person in the world but they made you aggressive on the phone, you lost any inhibitions.” Wolf of Wall Street: Leonardo DiCaprio stars (Photo: BFI) Young female staff at the firm in Long Island, New York, didn’t get the same treatment. Men shouted obscenities at them and at parties they were free game for male colleagues. Belfort described them in his memoir as “rutting away under the clear blue sky like barnyard animals, happy to put on a show.” His treatment of Miller Lite beer model Nadine was no better – he flew 100 staff and 100 hookers to Las Vegas for a stag orgy before their £600,000 Caribbean wedding. He bragged of having sex with her on a $3million mattress made of $100 bills. They had two children but Nadine, now 51, grew sick of his cheating and drugs and left him after he kicked her down the stairs of his 24-bedroom Long Island mansion. By then, financial regulators were closing in on Belfort. He was charged with artificially inflating the price of stock and was jailed in 2003.

He described young staff as having the intelligence of “Forrest Gump on three hits of acid” and how anyone failing to make £150,000 in their first year was fired. Belfort claims half of his cut from the film will go to his victims. He disputes recent court papers that claim he has repaid only $11.6million of the $110million compensation it was ruled he owes to those he cheated. He and second wife Nadine divorced in 2005 and Belfort, now engaged to Anne Koppe, 47, gives ­motivational speeches and teaches “sales ­techniques” to young brokers wishing to “create wealth for the ­greater good.” Nadine has since married businessman John Macaluso, 51. The ultimate hedonist is once again living the high life but this time in a California beach mansion – and he’s hanging out with Hollywood’s elite. Video Loading Jordan Belfort: The real Wolf of Wall Street | The Independent Profiles Jordan Belfort: The real Wolf of Wall Street The anti-hero of Martin Scorsese’s new film seems like a grotesque caricature of the ‘greed is good’ mantra.

But he’s real. Nikhil Kumar tells Jordan Belfort’s story Friday 20 December 2013 18:32 BST Click to follow The Independent Online Jordan Belfort had to pay $110m to the victims of his fraud Michael Loccisano In 1984, a New York native called Jordan Belfort got his undergraduate degree and headed to dental college. His mother had always wanted him to become a doctor but he overslept for his medical school entrance exams and told her that dentistry was his true calling. But when, on his first day at the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, the dean told his students them that they could expect their training to be rewarded with “a life of reasonable comfort”, young Jordan began to have doubts. According to his memoirs, his fears were confirmed when the dean said: “The golden age of dentistry is over. If you’re here simply because you’re looking to make a lot money, you’re in the wrong place.” The warning would mark the end of Belfort’s nascent career. Instead, he would charge down a road of white-collar crime that would eventually land him in prison.

Along the way, millions of dollars would be swindled from hapless investors and Belfort would consume enough drugs to, as he puts it, “sedate Guatemala”. “I had lots of nicknames: Gordon Gekko, Don Corleone, Kaiser Soze; they even called me the King. But my favourite was the Wolf of Wall Street,” he wrote in the best-selling first instalment of his memoirs, named after his favourite moniker. A second book called Catching the Wolf of Wall Street followed in 2009, and this Christmas, Belfort’s life story will appear on the big screen in the United States, with Leonardo DiCaprio playing the lead role. The movie is due be released in the UK early next year. Directed by Martin Scorsese, the film follows Belfort’s story as he morphs from a rookie Wall Street stockbroker without a job after markets crashed in 1987 to a brazen financial swindler whose firm, Stratton Oakmont, trained its young brokers in applying high-pressure tactics to trick unwitting investors into paying inflated prices for worthless stocks that the brokerage would have initially bought for a song.

In a pattern that made them millions, Stratton’s finest would bank the profits and swagger off, while the investors would end up shouldering losses when reality caught up with the shares and their prices collapsed. With the cash flooding in, Stratton’s employees were expected to live what Belfort, who declined to be interviewed for this article, called “the Life”: “driving the fanciest car, eating at the hottest restaurant, giving the biggest tips, wearing the finest clothes, and residing in a mansion in Long Island’s fabulous Gold Coast”. In retrospect, he says the business should have been called Sodom and Gomorrah. “After all,” he wrote in 2009, “it wasn’t every firm that sported hookers in the basement, drug dealers in the parking lot, exotic animals in the boardroom, and midget-tossing competitions on Fridays.” The boss made sure to set an example. The trailer shows Belfort’s character at wild parties and hanging out on a yacht – and in one scene, tossing crumpled-up $100-bills into a waste-paper basket.

“The year I turned 26 I made $49m, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week,” DiCaprio adds in a voiceover. After leaving dental school, Belfort became a meat and seafood salesman, working for a distributor before branching out on his own. Business wasn’t doing too well, though, and things took a turn for the worse when he ran into an old acquaintance from his neighbourhood who’d gone to work on Wall Street. Described as “an erstwhile loser”, he was being paid well enough to charter yachts off the Bahamas and drive a Ferrari. If the loser could succeed, Belfort was convinced he would flourish. Leonardo Di Caprio plays Belfort in 'The Wolf of Wall Street', which is based on the author's memoir (AP) “I was the most talented salesman in the world,” he wrote in his second book. “My mistake was that I’d picked the wrong product to sell.” A family friend got Belfort started at the merchant bankers LF Rothschild. But that didn’t last either: Belfort had just finished training when, on his first day as a licensed stockbroker, world markets tanked.

It was 19 October 1987 – Black Monday – when the Dow crashed by over 500 points. Among the victims was LF Rothschild, which folded. Technically, that was the end of Belfort’s Wall Street career. But his involvement with the seamier side of finance was just beginning: he landed at a Long Island-based penny-stock outfit before setting out on his own. To speed things up, instead of starting a firm from scratch, he struck a deal with a struggling Wall Street brokerage called Stratton Securities to commence operations as its branch in Long Island. Soon, though, Belfort was in control. A handful of years on, Stratton was occupying a sprawling glass office building in Long Island. Millions were pouring in and the wild life chronicled in the upcoming movie was in full swing. Until the Feds arrived, that is. In 1999, after a federal investigation, Belfort pleaded guilty to securities fraud and money laundering charges. Facing up to three decades behind bars, he became a government witness, supplying authorities with information about other defendants. He eventually ended up serving 22 months in prison and was ordered to pay victims of his fraud $110m in restitution.

He was barred from the industry, and Stratton was shuttered. Today, as the world prepares to watch his story, Belfort says he’s a changed man. In place of stocks and shares and dodgy dealing, he is a motivational speaker and sales trainer. “Fraud is not something you want to be good at,” he told the Associated Press in a recent interview. “I was always taking great efforts to cover my tracks. It was unbelievably exhausting, keeping track of all the lies... I think that’s why I lived so recklessly. You’re doing things that you know can’t go on indefinitely. It fuels that insane lifestyle.” The Wolf of Wall Street: Most outrageous quotes The Wolf of Wall Street: Most outrageous quotes 1/7 "My Ferrari was white—like Don Johnson's in Miami Vice—not red" Paramount Pictures 2/7 "I’ve been a poor man, and I’ve been a rich man. And I choose rich every f*****g time." 3/7 "I take Quaaludes 10-15 times a day for my back pain. Adderall to stay focused.

Xanax to take the edge off, part to mellow me out, cocaine to wake me back up again, and morphine...Well, because it's awesome" Mary Cybulski/AP 4/7 "My name is Jordan Belfort, the year I turned 26, I made $49 million, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week" (Leonardo Dicaprio pictured as Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street) Paramount Pictures 5/7 "“I had lots of nicknames: Gordon Gekko, Don Corleone, Kaiser Soze; they even called me the King. But my favourite was the Wolf of Wall Street" Paramount Pictures 6/7 "Money doesn't just buy you a better life, better food, better cars, better p***y – it also makes you a better person"(Pictured: Jordan Belfort, the real Wolf of Wall Street) GETTY IMAGES 7/7 "Act as if!

Act as if you're a wealthy man, rich already, and then you'll surely become rich" (Pictured: Jordan Belfort, the real Wolf of Wall Street) Michael Loccisano Jordan Belfort, the Real Wolf of Wall Street - Bloomberg Bloomberg the Company & Its Products Bloomberg Anywhere Remote LoginBloomberg Anywhere Login Bloomberg Terminal Demo Request Bloomberg Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world. Customer Support Advertising Bloomberg Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world. Customer Support Sign In Subscribe Jordan Belfort, the Real Wolf of Wall Street Belfort's boiler room scam sent him to prison. Now Leonardo DiCaprio is starring in the movie about his life, and the former stock swindler is back in business, advising top companies how to be ethical by Leonardo DiCaprio as Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street, out on Dec. 25 Photographer: Mary Cybulski/Paramount Pictures Jordan Belfort, aka the Wolf of Wall Street, hates it when people describe him as a criminal.

“‘Convicted stock swindler’—it’s like it hurts my heart,” he says, practically shuddering. “I know it was true, but it’s not who I am. I say to my son, I say it to everybody who I try to mentor: We are not the mistakes of our past. We’re the resources and capabilities that we glean from our past. And it’s so true.” “I was a bad guy. And it wasn’t like I started that way. You can get desensitized to your own actions—it’s easy on Wall Street.” It’s a delicate argument for Belfort to make. He will forever be associated with Stratton Oakmont, the Long Island penny-stock boiler room he ran in the 1990s. Stratton employed more than 1,000 brokers at its peak, before the Securities and Exchange Commission shut down the company and the FBI arrested Belfort, in 1998. Convicted of money laundering and securities fraud in 2003, he received a four-year prison sentence—he served only 22 months—and was ordered to repay $110.4 million to a victim compensation fund.

Other terms for the kind of outfit he built and ran are “pump and dump” and “chop-shop.” The words “fraud” and “crook” come up frequently as well. “It chokes me up a little when I think about it. … I was a bad guy. And it wasn’t like I started that way,” he says, his voice becoming tight. “You can get desensitized to your own actions—it’s easy on Wall Street. Before you know it, it’s like everyone’s just a number.” He goes on: “I shouldn’t really care what people think of me. … I know I’m good. But of course I do care.” Belfort, 51, is in Fort Worth for two days in October speaking to the Young Presidents’ Organization, a secretive networking group for CEOs and other senior executives under the age of 45. His theme, as usual, is what he’s learned from his experiences about how others can avoid the pain he caused and suffered.

Sporting a John Boehner-caliber tan, Belfort delivers a slick, self-deprecating performance describing how he drove his life into the gutter with greed and drugs and excess, how he stole millions from people and went to jail for it, and how he reinvented himself as a legitimate businessman. He’s a natural performer, and in spite of his tarnished background—or more likely because of it—audiences appear genuinely moved by what he says. It doesn’t hurt to open appearances with a trailer for The Wolf of Wall Street, the movie based on his story, which is due to open, after some editing hiccups, on Christmas Day. “To my shock it got picked up, with this bidding war between Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt,” Belfort says, “and I chose Leo and Martin Scorsese.” In addition to several million dollars that have flowed from book and movie deals, Belfort gets paid in the neighborhood of $30,000 for a speech—not bad for an hour’s work, although it requires him to spend the night in Fort Worth. A portion of his income will go to repay the investors whose money he lost.

The real-life Wolf Photographer: Jeff Brown for Bloomberg Businessweek Belfort makes a very good living, but it’s crumbs compared with the millions he says he once generated every day, pushing crappy $4 stocks on retirees in Orlando. In addition to traveling the world speaking, he works as a consultant to individual companies, talking about business ethics or teaching his sales techniques—the same ones that fueled his brokerage firm—which he argues can also be put to good use. Belfort says he’s been hired to do work for Delta Air Lines ( DAL ), Symantec ( SYMC ), Virgin Airlines, Wyndham ( WYN ), Telstra ( TLS:AU ), Deutsche Bank ( DB ), Fairfax Media ( FXJ:AU ), Southern Cross Austereo, and Absa Bank, among others. So far, almost all of his corporate clients have been abroad; in the U.S., the baggage of his criminal case may have created too much of a minefield for him to navigate, although he hopes this will change. “From the letters and things we get, I think a lot of people in the U.S.

think Jordan is thrilled about what he did, and that he partied hard and all that,” says Belfort’s fiancée, Anne Koppe, who runs his business with him out of Hermosa Beach, Calif. “He’d love [the U.S.] to be his main market, but he wanted to make sure that his message was pure and that people responded properly to it.” Belfort says he doesn’t want to profit from his crimes, but of course without them there would be no Wolf of Wall Street, no notoriety, no redemption story, no one paying him to talk about his life, and no fraternizing with Leo, about whom Belfort sounds a little star-struck. “You can’t change what you’ve done, you can only learn from it and try to be a better person for it and embrace it and grow. I’m not saying I’m Gandhi or I’ve discovered the cure for everything that ailed me emotionally or my insecurities. But, you know, I try really hard to be the best person I can be every single day.” Belfort’s $30,000 atonement speech is very earnest.

His books, The Wolf of Wall Street and its sequel, Catching the Wolf of Wall Street, revel in crime and the high life. They recount in loving detail every pill he popped, every Concorde flight he took, and every prostitute he hired as he built his empire of sleaze, Stratton Oakmont, into “one of the largest and by far the wildest brokerage firms in Wall Street history.” The over-the-top antics depicted in the books read like submissions to Penthouse Forum: A young female sales assistant takes turns servicing the men at the office, like a shoeshiner; there are drugged-out helicopter rides and blitzed trips on private jets; Belfort goes hooker shopping with buttoned-up Swiss bankers. All of it happens against a backdrop of Belfort’s specially trained brokers making millions selling worthless stocks to gullible investors. “F-‍-‍- this and f-‍-‍- that! S-‍-‍- here and s-‍-‍- there! It was the language of Wall Street,” Belfort writes, describing the din inside his firm’s cavernous, crowded office.

“It was the essence of the mighty roar, and it cut through everything. It intoxicated you. It seduced you! It f-‍-‍-ing liberated you! It helped you achieve goals you never dreamed yourself capable of! And it swept everyone away, especially me.” Consistent throughout is shameless bragging about how much money he was making and how ostentatiously he was spending it. The scheme Belfort’s firm employed to make money will be familiar to even the most junior enforcement attorney at the SEC: Stratton Oakmont would accumulate shares of so-called penny stocks, which tend to be thinly traded, stashing them in secret accounts Belfort refers to as “ratholes.” The army of sales guys would feverishly work the phones, making cold calls like characters in a David Mamet play. As the price of a stock gradually rose, Belfort and his partners would dump their own shares at a profit and then step out of the way as the thing crashed. The government alleged that he defrauded investors of more than $200 million. Belfort says he can’t believe he was ever there.

“I’ve had so many people tell me they’ve become successful from reading this book, in the sense that it motivated them to overcome obstacles in their life—and I love those e-mails,” he says. “And then I get the occasional a-‍-hole who will write me, ‘Oh, I want to go f-‍-‍-ing do what you did, I want to go do quaaludes.’ And obviously that I’m not very fond of, OK?” With Porush, who now lives in Boca Raton, Fla. Courtesy of Jordan Belfort In 1994, Stratton Oakmont settled a civil securities fraud lawsuit with the SEC. The firm agreed to pay a $2.5 million fine, and Belfort and his partners, Daniel Porush and Kenneth Greene, agreed to $100,000 fines apiece. None of the three admitted or denied the SEC’s allegations in the settlement, although Porush later went to prison over Stratton Oakmont. Greene pleaded guilty in 2003 to criminal charges related to another boiler room operation. Belfort was barred for life from the securities industry, and he was indicted in 1998.

He cooperated with the FBI, finking on his former employees. He reported to a federal prison camp in Taft, Calif., in 2004. It was during his 22 months there that he decided to write his memoirs. Incredibly, his cellmate was Tommy Chong, of Cheech and Chong, who was serving a nine-month sentence for selling drug paraphernalia—bongs in particular. As Chong describes it, the Taft Federal Correctional Institution would beat many Manhattan hotels for comfort. He says Belfort’s arrival “was like Elvis coming to jail” and that his roommate spent his days playing tennis and backgammon, cleverly hiring other inmates to do his chores for him. “We were part of the elite gang,” Chong says, adding that for a stretch they ate meals “Goodfellas-style” with another famous inmate, the PGA Tour caddie Eric Larson, who was serving time related to drug charges. Larson “worked in the garden, and he grew these fresh, delicious vegetables, and he used to cook them,” Chong says. “We had these beautiful vegetarian, healthy meals every night, and Jordan was part of the gang.

We had a nice little hierarchy there, intelligent famous guys hanging out together.” “He would inspire salespeople to basically go rob people.” Chong was working on a book, and after listening to Belfort regale him with tales of his own wild life, he urged him to put it down on paper. “All the stories were really about how he coped with his inadequacies, you know?” Chong says. “Like, he is a genius … but he is short, shorter than most, and Jewish, and so he compensated with money, you know, being able to make a lot of money. But the way he made it was part of his genius, because he would inspire salespeople to basically go rob people.” Belfort says he modeled his writing after Tom Wolfe, the author of The Bonfire of the Vanities. Hunter S. Thompson inspired him, too. Once he finished his manuscript, he quickly found that infamy can be lucrative. Multiple publishers were interested in his book, which ended up being sold to Random House for an advance of more than $1 million. An option on the film rights brought in another $1 million or so.

At the time, Belfort was freshly out of Taft and on probation, and 50 percent of all of his income was going to repay his investors. He decided to try the speaking circuit and started giving talks based on his life story for free at colleges. The financial crisis was raging, and “there was no money coming in,” Belfort says. “We were behind on all the credit cards. It was terrible.” With Nadine, his second wife Courtesy Jordan Belfort After setting up his author page onFacebook ( FB ), he learned that, rather surprisingly, he had a huge following in Australia. He found an agent there and went on a speaking tour. That led to engagements at companies—Belfort lists Virgin, Symantec, and Deutsche Bank as some of the first ones, noting that Virgin founder Richard Branson took a particular interest in him. Even as his career as a motivational speaker gained momentum, he was hesitant to try to monetize the one truly valuable skill he felt he possessed, the ability to teach others how to sell. This is how he’d driven dozens of kids from Long Island to get investors to buy his worthless stocks.

“Imagine if Apple had enough parts to make a million iPhones, but they said, ‘Well, let’s make 5 million—we’ll just put the s-‍-‍- parts in after we run out of the good parts,’ ” Belfort says. “That was really the mistake that I made. My ability to sell outstripped my ability to manufacture good deals.” He was reluctant to share his technique at first, having learned the hard way how aggressive sales tactics can be misused. But eventually Koppe and others persuaded him to try teaching it to companies. Even DiCaprio weighed in. “Dude, what’s f-‍-‍-ing wrong with you?” Belfort recalls DiCaprio saying. “There’s nothing wrong with selling. It wasn’t the selling that was evil. It’s what you did with it.” Belfort calls his method the Straight Line Persuasion System. “There are certain elements of influence that you have to line up before someone says yes,” he says, pulling out a pen and starting to scribble on a flyer lying on the table in front of him. “At the highest level, sales is the transference of emotion.

And the primary emotion you’re transferring is certainty.” He draws a line to represent a continuum of certainty from 1 to 10, explaining that almost anyone can learn how to prod reluctant customers, whether they’re considering buying real estate or shares in your company, along the scale toward the vaunted 10 by lowering their “action threshold”—whatever it takes to prompt them to buy—and their “pain threshold”—whatever is making them uncomfortable about a transaction. “You know,” Belfort says, “I had a gift from a very young age not just to sell, but to train salespeople.” When asked about the fine line he must tread to ensure that others don’t abuse his methods as he once did, he gets a bit defensive. “There’s probably 10,000 sales trainers in the world. There’s not one that focuses on ethics more than I do,” he says. “If I thought I was working at a place where they were going to misuse it—and I have—I’ll walk out.” How much does he get paid to do all this? “Let’s just say, you know, my time is worth more than $5,000 a day.

Well, $10,000 a day,” he says. “Say more than five or ten.” Then: “As much as fifty grand a day.” But, he adds, “The biggest money I’ll make by far in the next five years will be the books and the movie, which will probably be twenty, thirty million dollars, and I’m not even getting a dime of that. I gave 100 percent of that back to the [Stratton Oakmont] investors.” Just how much Belfort still owes his investors is the subject of some dispute. On Oct. 11 the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, in Brooklyn, filed a letter to the judge overseeing Belfort’s criminal case stating that he has paid a total of $11.6 million toward his $110.4 million restitution judgment. “The United States contends that the defendant remains obligated to continue to pay restitution at the rate of 50 percent of his gross income, as set forth in the judgment,” the letter read.

“This has now become a miscarriage of justice of massive proportions.” So far, most of the money he’s paid toward restitution, the letter says, consists of $10.4 million in assets he was required to forfeit to the government. After learning of Belfort’s book deal, the government sent notices to his publisher restraining their payments to him. It then worked out an arrangement with Belfort to take 50 percent of the book’s proceeds. Belfort says he tried to give the government 100 percent of the book deal money, but they wouldn’t take it. “I don’t want these books like an albatross around my neck,” he says. “It’s negative energy for me.” The U.S. Attorney’s office says it received $382,910 in 2007, $148,799 in 2008, and $170,000 in 2009. In 2010, the government says, Belfort made no payments at all.

In 2011, Red Granite Pictures purchased the rights to The Wolf and its sequel for $1.045 million, according to the letter (it had been optioned by Warner Brothers in 2007), of which Belfort got $940,500; an additional $250,000 is forthcoming. That same year, the government contends, Belfort made $21,000 in restitution payments. In 2012 the government received $125,000 directly from Red Granite, bringing his total contributions for that year to $158,000. The letter sketches out estimates of Belfort’s speaking and consulting income over the past few years—some of the income numbers have been blacked out for privacy purposes—and concludes that he’s been underpaying, requesting that the court find Belfort in default. This harsh accounting prompted Koppe to file a letter of her own on Oct. 22, arguing that Belfort has been trying to pay his debts in good faith. “This has now become a miscarriage of justice of massive proportions,” Koppe wrote.

Belfort’s lawyers argue that his obligation to return 50 percent of every penny he brings in ended when his probation did, in 2009. They say he and the U.S. Attorney need to work out an amenable repayment plan. The U.S. Attorney withdrew its motion to hold Belfort in default of his obligations on Oct. 25 so the parties could continue negotiating. In the meantime, Belfort is working on his next book while spending time with his kids, who are 20, 18, and 16, and preparing for the onslaught of publicity that will accompany the movie. He can give only so many speeches a year—he finds the constant travel to be something of a grind. He says he’s thought about trying to expand his sales-training business online or even franchising it out by training other people to teach his methods, but so far no one’s been able to do it as well as he has. The most important business stories of the day. Get Bloomberg's daily newsletter.

Jordan Belfort, the real Wolf of Wall Street, describes how greed got the better of him | Daily Mail Online Next 'I lost my soul as much as a person can and still be walking around': The real Wolf of Wall Street describes the first time greed got the better of him as he says he's willing to meet victims of his multimillion dollar fraud Jordan Belfort, who is played by Leonardo DiCaprio, described in a Monday night interview the moment he learned he was selling a scam, cheating innocent people out of millions of dollars Belfort, 51, who is now a motivational speaker, applauded The Wolf of Wall Street, but said it was difficult to watch in parts He said he spent more than 100 hours helping DiCaprio prepare for the role of his life The man who spent 22 months in prison for securities fraud and money laundering insisted to Piers Morgan that 95 per cent of what he did was legal But he added 'the 5 per cent was incredibly destructive and it poisoned everything' Dwarf-Tossing, 3-Way With Teen Employee Never Happened, Says Real "Wolf of Wall Street" Exec | Mother Jones Dwarf-Tossing, 3-Way With Teen Employee Never Happ

ened, Says Real "Wolf of Wall Street" Exec Donate Dwarf-Tossing, 3-Way With Teen Employee Never Happened, Says Real "Wolf of Wall Street" Exec According to the ex-president of the firm depicted in the bestselling memoir and new film, "the book...is a distant relative of the truth, and the film is a distant relative of the book." Asawin Suebsaeng Dec.

10, 2013 6:00 AM Email The Wolf of Wall Street is the stuff that Oscar buzz is made of. Martin Scorsese 's next film, set to be released on Christmas Day, chronicles the testosterone-soaked saga of Jordan Belfort , co-founder and chairman of Long Island brokerage house Stratton Oakmont, who went down for securities fraud and money laundering in the 1990s. (He served 22 months behind bars.) The movie is based on Belfort's 2007 memoir of the same name , which Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio —who plays the title character—have been looking to turn into a major motion picture since before copies hit bookstores. With a script by by Terence Winter (The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire ), and performances from Matthew McConaughey , Jonah Hill , Margot Robbie , and Cristin Milioti , there's little doubt that the film will be a prime Academy Awards contender . DannyPorush .com Both the memoir and the film tell an outrageous story, full of white-collar scandal, lust, and drug-fueled mayhem that includes sinking a yacht .

And while thousands of the memoir's readers have enjoyed the ride, some may close the book asking how much of Belfort's wild tale is true. Now, in advance of the film's release, Danny Porush, the co-founder and ex-president of Stratton Oakmont, has a few bones to pick with how his years at the firm have been presented. "The book...is a distant relative of the truth, and the film is a distant relative of the book," says Danny Porush, who, between 1988 and 1996, was a close friend and partner of Belfort. In the book, Porush is described as a businessman with a particularly killer instinct—a " Jew of the ultrasavage variety ." Like Belfort, Porush agreed to cooperate with authorities on investigations of other brokerage firms after the collapse of his own. He eventually served 39 months in prison, and now lives with his second wife in Florida, where he runs a Boca Raton medical-supply outfit. Jonah Hill. YouTube "My main complaint [regarding the memoir] besides his inaccuracy was his using my real name," Porush says.

Indeed, in the film, the character inspired by Porush, portrayed by Oscar -nominated actor Jonah Hill —has a different name: " Donnie Azoff ." The name was changed after the real Danny Porush threatened to sue the studio and filmmakers. (Paramount Pictures, the film's US distributor, and Red Granite Pictures, the production company behind it, did not respond to requests for comment.) Porush doesn't deny, as the book depicts, engaging in his fair share of unfettered hedonism, nor does he deny doing his share of drugs or indulging in rowdy antics. For example, movie goers will see Jonah Hill do this to a goldfish: Paramount Pictures /YouTube Porush says: true story. "I said to one of the brokers, 'If you don't do more business, I'm gonna eat your goldfish!'" Porush recalls. "So I did." Of course, films inspired by actual events have a tendency to augment and exaggerate true life and characters beyond recognition. Fittingly, in addition to some complaints about the book's accuracy, Porush has a run down of details from the trailers (the only parts of the movie he's yet seen) that he claims stray far from the truth.

Porush sharply denies that brokers became so debauched that Belfort was forced to declare the office a "fuck-free zone" from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Porush's quibbles start with the book's cover—and the film's title: Porush says he never heard anyone at the firm refer to Belfort as the "wolf." And while sex was nearly as integrated into office life as the scams that made the firm's owners millions, Porush strongly denies a long-established piece of Stratton lore detailed in the book, and dramatized in the film adaptation: that brokers became so debauched that Belfort was forced to issue a memo declaring the office a "fuck-free zone" from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on workdays. Both trailers show the Stratton Oakmont boys celebrating their haul by throwing a giant salesroom party with strippers, a marching band, horses, "dwarf-tossing," and a chimpanzee on roller skates.

Some of those details come from the memoir's depictions of entirely different events and parties; the scene appears to be a composite, rounded out with tidbits (such as the chimp) that Belfort told DiCaprio about in private conversation. In Belfort's 519-page book, the tossing of little people is only discussed as a possibility—and though DiCaprio's Belfort is shown hurling a little person alongside his staff, Belfort says (through a representative) that he merely heard from several people that they were thrown sometime after he left the firm. "It's not as crazy as it sounds," Porush is quoted as saying in the book. "I mean, it's not like we're gonna toss the little bastard in any odd direction." Wall Street "dwarf-tossing." Paramount Pictures /YouTube Porush says Belfort's version of the party, as depicted on the silver screen, includes several fictional hijinks. "There was never a chimpanzee in the office," Porush maintains.

"There were no animals in the office...I would also never abuse an animal in any way." And while Porush admits the firm hired little people to attend and mingle at at least one party, "we never abused [or threw] the midgets in the office; we were friendly to them," he emphasizes. "There was no physical abuse." "Stratton was like a fraternity," Porush remembers. "A lot of goofing around, hazing—but the worst we ever did was shave somebody's head and then pay 'em ten grand for it." (On this, Porush and Belfort agree—a version of the haircut appears in his book .) Granted, Scorsese's picture is not a documentary. "Hey, it's Hollywood," Porush says. "I'm not a communist; I know they want to make a movie that sells. And Jordan wrote whatever he could to make the book sell. His greatest gift was always that of a self-promoter." In one scene , the Donnie Azoff character sits and watches as thick bricks of cash are strapped to a Swiss woman's body. "[I] never taped money to boobs," Porush says.

Indeed, in the memoir, Porush is not present during this painful boob-tape incident . But there's another part of the book that's harder for him to laugh off. The book references Porush's many dalliances with various female sales assistants. At least one of these attention-grabbers is, according to Porush, completely made up. The incident concerns a "wildly promiscuous" employee, one who was seventeen-years-old . Belfort wrote: Anyway, about a month later, after a tiny bit of urging, Danny convinced me that it would be good if we both did her at the same time, which we did, on a Saturday afternoon while our wives were out shopping for Christmas dresses. "I categorically deny this," Porush says. "I'm not homophobic, but I never had sex with a girl with another guy. I've been with a zillion women, several women at the same time—but only just with women...Also, never any minors." (While Porush thinks it's highly unlikely the firm ever employed anyone under 18, it may be worth noting that the age of consent in New York state, where Stratton was based, is 17.

A representative of Belfort, who declined to comment himself for this story, says that the author stands by the anecdote: "I guess I can see why Danny is denying it, but that's what happened.") "I have thick skin...but bribing federal agents, organized crime, violence, moles in the US Attorney's office are not laughing matters." "I have no idea what else is in the movie or how it ends, except for a early draft of a screenplay that I read that was total fiction," Porush says. "Hey, I have thick skin and can easily laugh at myself, but bribing federal agents, organized crime, violence, moles in the US Attorney's office are not laughing matters." Regardless of how he feels about the film or the memoir's attachment to reality, Porush says he's excited to see the movie. "I'm a big fan of Scorsese, and DiCaprio," he says.

"Jonah Hill's body of work, I don't really know; it's less of my generation—I'm almost 60 years old." (He has seen Moneyball , however.) And though he's critical of the way Belfort painted their professional and personal history, Porush stresses that he doesn't hold a grudge. "Life's too short," he says. "I don't have any animosity toward Jordan...I spoke to him this past summer. I asked about his family, and wished him luck [on the movie]...We are not on unfriendly terms, I should say." "I'm looking forward to [the movie] coming out, and then going away [but] I hope it doesn't glorify criminal behavior," he continues. "I do not wish to try to profit from a crime that I'm remorseful for," Porush says. "I respect their First Amendment rights, but I would never try to profit from [those] crimes. I'm still very emotional about what happened." Porush has chosen to leave his Stratton Oakmont days in the past, enjoying a comfortable life in Florida. Belfort, on the other hand, came out of jail and wrote a bestseller on his brokerage days.

Belfort reportedly received a million-dollar pay day for the film, and DiCaprio cut a short video endorsing Belfort's motivational speaking business—another key aspect in his years-long redemption tour . More recently, the two have exchanged text messages, Porush tells me. They briefly discussed the fictionalization of events in the film, but Belfort predictably stood by the contents of his memoir. "I told him he should have come out of prison and started a new legit business, not live in the past," Porush says. As the film's highly anticipated premiere approaches. I asked Porush if he buys Belfort's present image as a changed man . "Yeah, sure, why not?" he replies. Get the scoop, straight from Mother Jones. Jordan Belfort | Straight Line Persuasion from the Wolf of Wall Street Register Now » Jordan is finalizing his 2016 calendar, please keep checking back for an event in your country.

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